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No. 246,597. Patented Sept. 6,1881.

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PATENT OFFICE.

MORTIMER M. (JAMP, OF NEVIT HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE ASPHALTED WROUGHT IRON PIPE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHEET-METAL AND CONCRETE PIPE FOR DRAINS, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,597, dated September 6, 1881.

Application filed July 11, 1851. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, MORTIMER M. GIMP, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sheet-Metal and Concrete Pipes for Drains, Sto., that are intended to be lined and coated, of which the following is a specification.

The nature and object of my improvement are to provide a novel joint for connecting sections of metallic pipe that are to be afterward coated and lined, which, while making a close and tightjoint, strengthens the united coated and lined pipe against peripheral pressure externally and internally, and prevents thejoints of the sections being withdrawn or spreading longitudinally or otherwise.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters ot ret'erenceindicate like parts, Figure l represents a sheet-metal pipe uncoated and unliued, embodying my im provement. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same after being coated and lined. Figs. 3 and 4 are sectional views of Figs. 1 and 2 on the line .fr y otl each figure. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view ot' the pipe in process of manufacture.

The sections ot' the pipe are lirst made in straight tubular form, andthe ends intended to be joined are slipped dat one over the other, as shown in detail, Fig. 5. They are then connected with a few rivets, and the jointed pipe is then carried to a beading-machine of peculiar construction. (This machine is not herein describedin detail, asitisembodiedin another specification drawn up preparatory to making application for Letters Patent therefor, it being obvious that none of the ordinary beading-machines can be used for beading my improved pipe, in consequence of the projecting rivets a and flanges a and a2.) The overlapping joints are then pressed out, forming a bead, A. This bead does not take up all of the overlapping metal, but leaves beyond the relief-beaded portion Hat flanges a a2, the flange a on section B surrounding and lying lat externally upon section C, the other ange, a2, surrounding and lying dat internally against the inner face ot' section B, and so on with each sncceeding section. My improvedjoint requires only a very small number of rivets. The pipe is then lined and coated with asphaltum, cement, or any similar composition. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of such finished pipe, wherein fis the metal pipe, and b c represent respectively the lining' and coating.

Besides the advai'itage ot' my improvement as a device for joining sectional sheet-metal pipe, the beaded rims, with their internal and external lianges, form strengtheiiing -ribs ot' overlapping metal, that re-ent'orce the pipe and protect it from circumferential pressure either externally or internally.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim isl. The sectional sheetmetal pipe having overlapping joints irstriveted together, and which joints are afterward pressed, so as to form the outwardly-projecting beads A and overlapping external and internal fiat llanges, c a2, substantially as described.

2. In a sheetlnetal pipe for lining and coating with cement, asphalt, or similar substance, the riveted beaded joint A, having external flat flanges, a', and internal tlat flanges, a2, substantially as described.

3. In a jointed sectional sheet-metal pipe, the strengthening' double metallic ribs formed by beading the overlapping ends of the several sectional joints, in combination with overlying external and internal llat llanges,alln1ade from the body of the main tube without any additional pieces, as and for the purpose intended, substantially as described.

MORTIMER M. CAMP.

Witnesses V. M. OPPER, ERNEST MARX. 

